Earth

Sometimes i feel a great need to serve, to help others in need. I don't have a large income and if i did i feel i would make use of it some way to come to the aid of others from a financial perspective.
The best I can do is offer prayer for those in a worse situation than myself.The power of prayer is a real tangible thing I feel.I can also volunteer to help the needy.

There are things we can all do to serve and give back to the world, where it is at times crying out for our help. We really are not at a loss to have an efffect in anothers life. Just saying "hello" or " how are you doing" to someone can make a big difference for them.There is nothing little in this life ,but only that which is seen through the lens of a limited mind.Let the heart lead the way because It doesn't compare big or small. It just sees the sincerity behind the action and intent.
So let's give whatever we can.

I am always amazed at natures ability to become so hot and so cold in the way she expresses herself from season to season. Days ago i felt an incomprehensible cold run through my being as I bicycled from my home to get to a train ride in order to get to a job. "How can I stand this", I was thinking as i was going down the road, "will I make it, or will I burst from this freeze before I get there?"It's also a marvel of the human body in it's ability to withstand the extremes of the heat of summer or of the cold of winter.
Nature is an amazing thing.The nature of man and woman is an amazing thing and of all the creatures both great and small.I think that we are all mini systems of nature walking on two four or more legs in this life, built t to sustain and withstand different states of being,different temperatures,moods and cycles.
When we respect nature and it's inhabitants,we are on the road to respecting ourselves as well.
We are the sky,we are the mountains.We are in our dry ,arrid and desert like periods ,as we are also in our moist fertile and green garden periods.

"Oh thank bitter cold for reminding me of the cold and frozen nature of myself and thank you heat for reminding me of my warm ,passionate flowing nature as well"
Let's take care of each other and of the Earth Mother as well.Give a warm hug to someone in the cold and a cool hand to a hot forehead in the heat.Namaste.

When I lie on the earth , with my spine touching her surface, it is really like plugging into an energy connection transfusion. My body settles down gradually into the energetic grid work of the earth mother, sinking in and sinking down into her vibratory rate of healing , receptivity and nurturing, connecting with the spine to recharge the electrical system of my body.

I feel the release of stress leaving my system and as it enters the earth to be transmuted..My sacrum connects and becomes charged with earth energy relaxing tight muscles of the lower back to allow the spine to touch more of the surface gradually.
It is truely a time of connection to the earth within ones self.The earth within and the earth without. All thoughts or beliefs about separation from anything dissolve right then and there and you know that you've plugged into the bigger part of who you really are and the bigger world around you and how the two are truely not different at all .

Surrender your self to the earth and you let go of all the little things that appeared big to you in your moments unconsciousness and illusion.

I recieved an e-mail from Andre the other day. It contained beautiful photographs from some yong students in New Orleans. Sometimes it is challenging to find joy in the moment especially when things around you are difficult. When I hear stories of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in jail undergoing terriable tortures I marvel at their faith and connectedness. Some days when I am not feeling well or when i have heard of the terriable situations of people or animals on this planet I have to work hard to find my connection again. Andre has been teaching students in the Air Port communities...He has been teaching the kids to look through the cameras and find something beautiful... below are some of his words and one of the students photos that I found truly powerful!

They stretch and crawl and roll up into furry balls of fur.They roar and bark,swim,sing,take wing and snore.They are the four-leggeds,the finned ones and the ones who fly.They are our guides and companions and the wild things in the big wilderness.Animals,fish,insects and birds are the messengers from the great spirit sent here to help us remember our humanity,for many of us have fallen asleep and have been distracted by our self-created techno-world taking the place of our instincts and making life all too deadly and deadeningly "easy" for us.Push-button-push-button.